US4786308A - Growth medium, and a method for producing the same - Google Patents

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US4786308A
US4786308A US07/056,639 US5663987A US4786308A US 4786308 A US4786308 A US 4786308A US 5663987 A US5663987 A US 5663987A US 4786308 A US4786308 A US 4786308A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
    • A01G20/00—Cultivation of turf, lawn or the like; Apparatus or methods therefor
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    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
    • A01G24/00—Growth substrates; Culture media; Apparatus or methods therefor
    • A01G24/20—Growth substrates; Culture media; Apparatus or methods therefor based on or containing natural organic material
    • A01G24/28—Growth substrates; Culture media; Apparatus or methods therefor based on or containing natural organic material containing peat, moss or sphagnum
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • the present invention relates to a growth medium for plants, e.g. grass, etc., and a method for producing such a growth medium.
  • the natural growth medium for plants e.g. grass and the like is humus soil.
  • the definition of a growth medium is, presently extended to include a non-vegetabilic medium which exclusively or mainly functions as a support for the root system of a plant, necessitating nutrients to be added from another source or from the growth medium.
  • Such growth media are, presently, used in green houses for cultivation of salad, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc.
  • the most commonly used growth medium at present is rockwool especially produced to this end. Rockwool is then placed in a vessel which is filled with water to a certain level. To the water plant nutrients are added and the water is commonly circulated in the plant vessels or plant trough with continuous control and addition of nutrients, etc.
  • the medium could be supplied by blowing a jet of growth medium particles.
  • the medium must be very dry to be blown by the aid of a blower. With the material previously known this would cause the material to spread in an entirely uncontrolled manner, especially if there were windy conditions when the material was blown. Afterwards the material would also show the same disadvantages as described above as regards erosion by wind and water.
  • a growth medium consisting of a homogeneous mixture of short rockwool fibres and short vegetable fibres, preferably sphagnum or peat fibres.
  • the method for producing the growth medium according to the invention is characterized by the fact that long rockwool fibres and vegetable fibres, preferably peat fibres, and possibly with an addition of humus material, preferably composted sludge in a dry state, as well as a quickly disintegrating binder, if desired, are thoroughly mixed in a mixer to form homogeneous spheres or balls, that the latter are cut to form short fibres by the aid of rotating beating knives in a hammer mill or the like, and that the medium is then supplied to the growing site, or to a packing material by the aid of an air jet.
  • the material e.g. rockwool, peat fibres, humus, glue, seed, fertilizer, is supplied from containers or tanks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5' via a pipeline 6 to a mixer 7.
  • the mixer consists of a rotating cement mixer.
  • these spheres or balls are supplied to fibre cutting means 9 via pipeline 8. Rotating knives cut the fibres here, into short pieces which are fed continuously to blower 10 blowing the growth medium out through a pipeline 11.
  • the growth medium disclosed above is first and foremost described for use as a means for forming covering vegetation on wounds in nature, slopes along roads, power in gardens, parks, athletics grounds and other green areas, etc. those skilled in the art will obviously understand that this medium may also be used in connection with cultivation of other cultivated plants. It is also possible that said medium may be used for a winter cover for various kinds of horticultural plants, e.g. in connection with application of a more or less watertight film.
  • peat fibres other vegetable fibres may be used, e.g. bark fibres, defibrated wood material, defibrated sugar cane residues, and the like.

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US5591637A (en) * 1988-09-27 1997-01-07 Inoue; Satoshi Method for manufacturing of organic fertilizers and device thereof
US5401291A (en) * 1988-09-27 1995-03-28 Inoue; Satoshi Method for manufacturing of organic fertilizers and device thereof
US5368626A (en) * 1991-04-18 1994-11-29 Chicago International Corp., Ltd. Growth medium and method
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US5189833A (en) * 1992-03-09 1993-03-02 Conjetta M. Butt Turf-growing process
US5507845A (en) * 1994-10-11 1996-04-16 Charles J. Molnar Plant sod mats
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US20040098908A1 (en) * 2001-07-17 2004-05-27 Masayuki Miyajima Plant cultivation soil and elevated cultivation method and elevated cultivation bed using the same
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US7059083B2 (en) 2003-02-12 2006-06-13 Gp Cellulose, Llc Seedbed for growing vegetation
US8256160B2 (en) 2004-11-19 2012-09-04 Rubin Patti D Compressed growing medium
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US9756798B2 (en) 2004-11-19 2017-09-12 Patti D. Rubin Burrow filling compressed growing medium
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